29 N.J. Super. 291 - Kelley v. Curtiss’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably McAndrew v. Mularchuk (1960), 33 N.J. Super. 575 - Kuzmiak v. Brookchester (1955)
4 district · 29 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on District of Columbia v. Woodbury · Barnes v. District of Columbia · Kunz v. . City of Troy · Milstrey v. City of Hackensack · Allas v. Borough of Rumson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be active, there must be a ‘positive, affirmative act.’ Allas v. [Borough of[ Rumson, 115 N. J. L. 593, 595 (E. & A. 1935), supra. In other words, in the sequence of events each of which becomes a proximate cause of the injury, there must be a wrongful act (as distinguished from a mere failure to act) on the part of some municipal officer, agent or servant. The last event in that sequence may be non-action; but that does not render the prior act immune. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Tort Liability of Municipalities in New Jersey,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.